Shanie Tomassini

Shanie Tomassini (1991) is a Montréal-based visual artist. In 2019, she completed her MFA in Sculpture at the University of Texas in Austin, where she has received a number of awards including the UMLAUF Prize and the Cofa summer fellowship. In her work, she reflects on the nature of a given material and its evolution through space and time. Her research centers around a form that becomes of motif for poetic emancipation. She has presented her work in several solo exhibitions, namely at the UMLAUF Sculpture Garden and Museum (Austin), at CIRCA art actuel (Montréal), at the Courtyard Gallery (Austin), and at the Maison des arts de Laval. She has also shown her work at the Sweet Pass Sculpture Park (Dallas), at the Foire en art actuel de Québec, at the Visual Art Centre (Austin), and at TAP Art Space (Montréal). She recently received a research and production grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.